Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mark of a foot; a footprint; track.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A footprint; a track or vestige.

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  • noun footprint (an impression made by a foot)

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  • noun a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface

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Examples

  • Poitiers, dedicated to the queen of Clothaire I. -- who afterwards took the veil, and was distinguished for her piety -- there is shown on a white marble slab a well-defined footmark, which is called "Le pas de

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • Curious, because, so far as one can trace any footmark in this mud-stained corner, one would say it was a more shapely sole.

    Chennai 2010

  • This is a sad day in talking about democracy, but it's worse as for the footmark we will leave in that part of the world.

    CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2007 2007

  • The only trace was a little footmark under her bedroom window.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Like every year that has come before, it has left an indelible mark, a permanent footmark on our perception of reality as we try to comprehend the events that have taken place, and desperately try to organize these events into a scenario that we can understand, one that makes sense.

    The Reform That Enables All Other Reforms 2006

  • There were trodden places, bent and broken blades of the coarse grass, and ever and again the sufficient intimation of a footmark.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • ‘At our school,’ said A., ‘we had a ghost’s footmark on the staircase.

    A School Story by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

  • Dr Chinston went to the window and looked out; there were no marks of feet on the flower bed, where it was so soft that anyone standing on it would have left a footmark behind.

    Madame Midas 2003

  • It pretty nearly pulled all the legs off me, and to this hour I cannot tell you if it is best to put your foot into a footmark — a young pond, I mean — about the size of the bottom of a Madeira work arm-chair, or whether you should poise yourself on the rim of the same, and stride forward to its other bank boldly and hopefully.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • The Sergeant pointed to the boot in the footmark, without saying

    The Moonstone 2003

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